[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

[Martin v. Loewis]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> That's incorrect.  Distutils is not a make substitute and I doubt it ever
> will be.  What dependency checking it does do is incomplete and this gives
> rise to problems that are reported fairly frequently.

Can you provide a specific example to support this criticism? Could
you also explain how generating makefiles would help?

Regards,
Martin